Hi Ben, Apologies for the late response.
On 26/06/2020 11:01, Benjamin Schubert wrote: > > I think the desire for plugins doing such things can be obtained with > different constructs, which we might need to implement and promote, and that > "being able to write in the sandbox directory" without running in the sandbox > is not a hard requirement for any plugin, if we have a way of doing it > differently. > > Will it mean that plugin authors might not be able to write their plugin the > easiest way? Possible, however, that's were as a community we need good > examples and documentation on how to do "those special things". > I agree. I just wanted to emphasize that I don't think it would be a case of simply forbidding certain things from happening (in whatever way is decided is best). However the way I think it's best to make it as simple as practical for a user. > Moreover, at least for all the 'packaging' plugins, we would just not need to > do anything outside the sandbox anymore. OK, how do you see this working in the example of the bazelize plugin? Do you mean that this plugin would be a source kind instead? > Hope my answers better clarify my vision, > Ben > > -- Best Regards, Darius For Codethink's privacy-policy please see https://www.codethink.co.uk/privacy.html
